OK oddly enough I recieved an e-mail this morning saying that the prints were not a match. I am not really sure how they were able to get prints off of skeletal remains. They used prints that the FBI had on the missing person instead of the ones that I had sent from the Sherriffs department when he was arrested in 1986. So I have a few concerns. They are going to try to get a hold of the guy who examined the bones and get his opinion. I will keep my finger crossed, but I really would feel more comfortable with DNA.
No more news today. I am SO out of the loop. I really despise the LE some times. Ungrateful comes to mind.
this guy makes the most sense in terms of a possible match, David Thomson:
https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/1890/1/
last seen July 04, 1979 in MN, traveled about, was between 5'8-5'11" and had brown hair. in terms of skeletal information, while not exactly the same as the UID is the closest I could find:
In a car accident in 1964 resulting in a fracture in his growth bone of left shoulder, foreshortening his left arm, serious left leg fracture resulting in leg being 3/8 of an inch shorter. Subsequent diagnosis of scoliosis.
so Thomson had both a prior leg fracture and scoliosis.
ETA - I should add that Thomson was older than the upper range, but they are only estimates anyway.
thoughts on Tommy Gene Harfield? I'm not sure how he ended up in MI but the stats, timeline and injuries/scars match
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/4792dmtn.html
https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/21815/0/